Mail-bag ejector for toy railways



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UNITED STATES PA'TE FREDERICK .I. PULLIS, E JERSEY CITY,- NEW JERSEY.

MAIL-BAG EJECTOR FOR TOY RAILWAYS.

Application filed April 9, 19 26. 7 Serial No. 100,938.

This invention relates to toy railways and has particular reference to a mail bag ejecting attachment therefor.

' Heret-ofore toy railways have been provided with mail bag catchers for the purpose of catching toy mail bags from stationary bag-supporting elements alongside of the track, but no means has heretofore beendevised to work in connection therewith .for ejecting the mail bag, and, hence, after a certain number have been caught, the toy must be stopped and the bags either fished out with a wireor otherwise removed.

The present invention comprehends in combination with a toy railway equipped with a mail bag catching device, a means for automatically ejecting the bags subsequent to the catching operation, which eliminates the necessity. of stopping the train for this purpose, thereby adding to the at .tractivcness of the toy and rendering the same more amusing. v

c The invention furthermore comprehends a mail b ag ejecting device for toy railways, which is comparatively simple in its construction, inexpensive to produce, and readily applicable to or detachable from the ra1lway.

With the above recited and other objects in' view, reference is. had to the following specification and accompanying drawings in which thereis exhibited one example or em- I bodiment of the invention which is in no way intended as a limitation upon the scope of the appended claims as it is to be clearly understood that variations and modifications which properly fall within the scope of said claims may be resorted to when found exof reference, A designates a toy mail car having doorways B, and mounted on wheels for movement overthe rail C ofatrack.

,Heretofor'e to'y railways have been equipped with amail' bag supportingdevice D suitably connected with" and disposed alongside the track rails, and the mail car A has been provided with a catching arm E for engaging, removing and throwing the mail bags' Fjthrough the doorway-B into the mail car. i f

'ln the present invention the mail bag ejecting device consists of a trough-like member 10 which is pivotally attached at 11 to a base 12, whichbase is provided with dependent resilient terminal arms 13 de signed to frictionallyfengage the opposite sides of the car A with the base 12-eXtending transversely of the car at the doorways so as to'dispose the trough-likemember 10 adjacent the doorway npon which the catching hook E is mounted. The base .12 is formed withan upwardly projecting finger 14 adapted to engage under the floor 15 of the trough-like member for normally supporting the same at la lateral inclination with .the lower hinged end adjacent the doorway upon which the catching arm E is mounted. 'The' free uppermost end of the trough-like member 10 is provided with a Weight 16 ,for normally maintaining the member in engagement withthe stop finger 14. Y The floor orb'ottom wall 15 adjacent the hinged end is offset upwardly at 17 and is provided with an extension 18 projecting outwardlythroug'h the doorway B and provided with a vertical depending leg. 19 having anoutturned horizontal foot-20. The

foot20 has detachably associated therewith a trip clip21, whichconsists o'f a'strip 'of material bent medially of itself into substantially arcuate; form t o constitute a cam 22, the remaining ends 23,23 beingeiztended inwardlytoward each other overlapping relation and formed with opposite hooked extremities 24: which, due to the inherent resiliency of the material from which the trip clip is constructed, sets up a clamping action of the hooked extremities. with the foot 20 to retain the trip clip in place against accidental, displacement.

The mail bag ejecting device further includes a ramp 25 similarly constructed to the trip clip and detachably associated in the same manner as the trip clip with thehorizontal inwardly projecting arm 26 of the supporting strip 27 disposed alongside of the track and detachably connected therewith" by the base portion {28 Whichis 'Ttirmed with resilientgrippi'ng fingersQ9.

In use and operation, the bags F when caught by the arm E 'ztromithemail hag supporting device D, are thrown through the doorway B Wl181'6 they "are received in the trough-like member 10 and retainedin place due to the upwardly oflsetfportion 17 until the train reaches the ejecting ramp 25. At this point the cam portion 22,0"ftlie trip clip engages the ramp which eflects a to its motion, thrown clear of the ramp 25.

The Weight 16 will effect "a r-etur'n ofthe trough-like member 10 to? its normal .p0sition after the trip clip is disengaged "from or clearof the ramp 25.

FIOIlItllB 'fo'regoingit will be seen that a mail bag ejectingdevice for use in connec tion with toytrainsequipped with mail bag catchers, has been devised, which eliminates the necessity of stopping the 'tr'ainto remove the bagsand it is obvious that the player or user has only to place the bags on the mailbag supporting device asthey are thrown or ejected from thetrain. In event it is desired to render the ejecting device inactive, either the trip (dip or the ramp may beremoved by pressing inwardly on the opposite ends thereof to disengage the hookedtermina'lsfli from the foot 20 or; arm 26. It is also obvious-that the ejecting device maybe readily removed from'the car disengaging the dependent farms 13"up'on: upward movement of the base 12.

Iclaim: r 1. Amail hag ejecting devicefor my railm 'cars, comprising troughdike bag receiving member, a :ha'se'to which the same ispivota lly connected, means for detachably connecting the base with the ear, an exten lsion on said member pr'oj ectin through the door of't'he car and having a'depenjding ieg provide'divith an outturned horizontal foot, a "trip clip detachab'ly carried by the foot,

a ramp detachably connected with the railyvay track and disposed alongside thereof 1n the path Of Ii1OVBIHGHit/"Of the clip for engagement thereby to swing the troughlike 'inern-be-r to an angular position for gravitationallypj'ectingn I 2. A mail bag ejecting device for toy railwayoars, a trough-like bag receiving member, a base to which the same is pi'vetaliy v connected, means for detachably connecting the base with the car, an extension on said member projecting through the door of the "car and having a depending ieg rovided With an outturned horizontalifoot, "a

trip clip detahably carried by theiooha inwardly projecting ends "formed with hooked{extremities normally moved toward each other by theinher-ent resiliency o-I' the material tromwhieh the strip is formed-to frictional-11y cia npthe foot.

3. Inf'a mail bag" ejecting "device for toy railways er thecharacter set forth, a base strip having downturned :e'xtrernrtles "adapted to j'bej arranged transversely "of a toy car with the extremitiesextending -=th:rough the doorway and iric'tionally engaging the opposite sides: of the lower portion of :the "car troughdiire bag receiving element pivoted to one end of the base strip and disposed transversely'of the "car; means on thebase stripfor normally holding the trough-like member projecting through the doorwayand having an upwardly ofiset portion *at its 7 juncture with the member-{said extension {having a depending leg and 'a horizontal laterally projecting foot," a removable camshaped trip clip carried by the foot,and -a ramp element carried by the railway track and disposed alongsidethereof in the path of movement of the trip clip for tripping-the same to eject the bag gnwitatic all from theltroug hli'ke member. o l

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